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SUBMITTER: Baskfield A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6643268 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baskfield Amanda A Li Rong R Beers Jeanette J Zou Jizhong J Liu Chengyu C Zheng Wei W
Stem cell research 20190412
Niemann-Pick disease type B (NPB) is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease caused by mutations in the SMPD1 gene, which encodes for acid sphingomyelinase. A human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line was generated from dermal fibroblasts of a 1-year old male patient with NPB that has a heterozygous mutation of a p.L43_A44delLA of SMPD1 using non-integrating Sendai virus technique. This iPSC line offers a useful resource to study the disease pathophysiology and as a cell-based ...[more]